Who’s the black private dick that’s a sex machine to all the chicks? If you answered “Shaft,” you’re damn right!  When Isaac Hayes picked up the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1972 for the “Theme from Shaft,” he was only the third African-American to win an Oscar – and the first in the field of music.  Shaft remains the best-selling album in the Stax Records catalogue and one of the most successful soundtracks of all time; for Isaac Hayes, it was a triumph that built on the commercial success he’d…

Can the soundtrack to Shaft get any bigger? “You’re damn right!” Isaac Hayes’ masterful, chart-topping album comes back in June as a 2CD deluxe edition that features the original double album alongside Hayes’ original film score recordings. It’s been nearly 50 years since Richard Roundtree first lit up the screen as New York’s toughest private detective, John Shaft. In that time, he’s reprised the role on TV and in four sequels. (A fifth is due next month; 2019’s Shaft follows 2000’s Shaft, both of which star Samuel L. Jackson as the nephew…